Between William Shakespeare's 1610 play, “The Tempest” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short novel “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the representation of Love is a theme present in both genres which, through distinctive forms, is expressed in different ways. Between Miranda and Ferdinand's relationship in “The Tempest” and that of the narrator and husband John in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” love is uniquely presented and exposes the creative development of literature within different genres over the course of history. In this article I will examine both literary genres mentioned, combined with the presentation of character, language, and form, in an attempt to evaluate how all of these attributes contribute to the writer's distinctive depictions of love and relationships. Between both In "The Tempest" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" we see a contrast between the love at first sight before marriage between the characters Miranda and Ferdinand and the consequences and stress of a family life after marriage between the narrator and John. In “The Tempest” we see the characters become infatuated with each other and quickly establish an emotional connection. This romance and love are contrasted in “The Yellow Wallpaper” with the birth of a child presenting tension between both the speaker and her husband John. Romance and love are a key theme presented in “The Tempest” as we see through the introduction of the characters Miranda, a young daughter of the King of Milan named Prospero, and Ferdinand, the son of the Duke of Naples. After being inundated on the beach of Milan by the storm thrown onto the sea by Prospero with the waves of the “Mediterranean float” (Shakespeare: 1. 2. 234), the character of Ferdinand shows an immediate romantic admiration for Mi… . . middle of the paper ......lack of understanding between John and the narrator's true feelings and emotions, which hides all the values ​​they believe they have in their relationship; the narrator does not receive the care and attention that a wife deserves from a husband in a marriage. Since the novel is written through the narrative voice of the protagonist, a false empathy may be presented between John and the speaker, making his illness seem unnecessary and a cry for attention rather than one for necessary attention. The one-sided narrative voice that Gilman uses in his short novel allows the reader to understand the emotions felt by the narrator, but it clouds John's point of view. The use of the passive voice in this novel emphasizes only one side of the speech, something Gilman may have intended to emphasize the tension and tension in the relationships experienced by the narrator..